2024 ACS Studio Prize Shortlist announced, returning for the eighth year to offer recent graduates the chance to win £6,000 to contribute to the cost of an artist’s studio in a UK city of their choice and the opportunity to take part in a group exhibition at Gurr Johns International, a global independent art advisory and appraisal group.
This year’s judges, pop artist and Royal Academician Allen Jones, artist and Director of the Royal Academy Schools Eliza Bonham Carter, artist and art patron Rosamond Brown and the Managing Director of ACS, Lady Bridgeman will select the five finalists and the winner from 21 shortlisted artists.
The five finalists will be announced the week beginning 26th August 2024 with the winner announced on 1st October at the ACS Studio Prize x Gurr Johns Exhibition Private View.
The Prize, which was launched in 2017 by Lady Bridgeman (founder of ACS and Bridgeman Images), Tim Marlowe and Maggi Hambling, was established after a number of our members’ spoke of the economic challenges they faced when starting their artistic careers. The ACS Studio Prize was founded to help.
Past winners include sculptor Marco Miehling who has since exhibited at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and was commissioned by Selfridges Art Block. Painter Rebecca Harper has since featured in multiple international solo shows and gained representation by the Huxley-Parlour Gallery. Araminta Blue, is currently represented by Gallery Rosenfeld.
David Gardner, who after winning Prize in 2022, was selected for a group commission for Hauser & Wirth Somerset Art Farm Shop. He was also invited to undertake a residency at the Palazzo Monti in Brescia and has had several solo and group exhibitions throughout the UK and EEA.
Dorcas Casey, winner of the 2021 Prize, was selected to exhibit works for FRESH at the British Ceramics Biennial. Dion Kitson, who’s first major solo exhibition, ‘Rue Brittania’ opened at the Ikon Gallery in May to great critical acclaim.
From its inception the Prize has been championed a host of renowned and respected artists and art market professionals including Gavin Turk, Celia Paul, Mat Collishaw, Flora Yukhnovich, Simon Martin (Pallant House), Eileen Cooper, Edoardo Monti (Palazzo Monti), Cathie Pilkington, Bob and Roberta Smith, Jo Baring (Ingram Collection), Paul Huxley, Rob & Nick Carter, Tim Marlowe and Maggi Hambling.
The shortlisted artists are:
Irini Bachlitzanaki (Royal Academy Schools), Richard Burton (Royal College of Art), Thomas Cameron (City & Guilds of London Art School), Elizabeth Dimitroff (Royal College of Art), Joshua Donkor (Cardiff Metropolitan School of Art and Design), Lewis Graham (University of Worcester), Lily Hargreaves (Royal College of Art), Olivia Hawkswell (Liverpool John Moores University, Andrew Maughan (Royal Academy Schools), Lindsey Jean McLean (Slade School of Fine Art), Celia Maria Mora Garcia (Royal College of Art), Elena Njoabuzia OnwocheiGarcia (Glasgow School of Art), Blythe Plenderleith (Royal College of Art), Claudia Pons Bohman (Royal College of Art), Daniel Rey (Central Saint Martins), Afonso Rocha (City & Guilds of London Art School), Jen Roper (City & Guilds of London Art School), Amanda Seibaek (Glasgow School of Art), Beth Simcock (The Ruskin School of Art), Lily Snowden-Fine (Royal Drawing School), Oliver Williamson (Royal Drawing School)
About
The Artists’ Collecting Society (ACS) is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company dedicated to the administration of intellectual property rights such as copyright and the Artist’s Resale Right on behalf of visual artists and their estates. Since 2012 ACS has reinvested close to £250,000 in educational bursaries and prizes at arts universities and charitable institutions throughout the UK. The eponymous ACS Studio Prize is perhaps the most celebrated. You can find out more about the ACS bursaries, residencies and talks on the ACS website. You can also find out more about the ACS Studio Prize past winner via its dedicated ACS Studio Prize page.
